Tag: Unlocking the Cage

Unlocking The Cage | 2016 Sundance Film Festival Review

Breaking Through The Bars: Hegedus & Pennebaker Go Ape In Court With Animal Rights Activist Steven Wise Having long ago been crowned the king and queen...

2016 Sundance Film Festival: Eric Lavallee’s Top 5 Most Anticipated Films

Unlike some other media outlets who are blasphemously drawing up "most anticipated" Sundance lists that come across as a simple rehash of the entire feature film line-up,...

What’s Up Doc?: Park City Premieres From Pennebaker/ Hegedus, Herzog & Greene Help Bring In The New Year

Having started this doc tracking project back in the summer of 2014, its been incredibly fascinating to see the development of these films and...

What’s Up Doc?: Pennebaker/Hegedus & Malick Voyage to the Top in November

It's been a couple months since the last edition of What's Up Doc? placed Michael Moore's surprise world premiere of Where To Invade Next at...

2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker’s Unlocking the Cage

A documentary film that will do more for the animal ethics, protection and liberation debate than Project Nim, The Cove and every other doc that...

What’s Up Doc?: Louie Psihoyos Tops Our *New* Monthly Top 50 Most Anticipated Docs Guide

They often get quite a bit less attention than their fictional brethren, and it doesn’t help that many films fly under the radar while...

Popular

Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.

Interview: Eivind Landsvik – Low Expectations | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

Exploring themes of mental health, emotional recovery, companionship, and...

Interview: Sandra Wollner – Everytime | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

One of the discoveries of this year's Cannes Film...

Interview: Lukas Dhont – Coward | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

Following the Grand Prix–winning Close, Belgian filmmaker Lukas Dhont...